STRING THEORY SEMINAR

Spring 2005 Schedule

This semester the seminar will mostly meet on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in 5280 Chamberlin 
If hyperlinked, click on the title to download the slides from the seminar

Date
Speaker
Title
Feb 8 Akiakzu Hashimoto
UW-Madison
Open/Closed String Duality for Topological Gravity with Matter
Feb 15 Yongbin Ruan
UW Madison
Closed string sector in Landau Ginzburg A-model
Feb 22 David Mateos
Perimeter Institute
Supersymmetric Black Rings and Supertubes
Mar 8 Davide Gaiotto
Harvard
Black Hole Attractors and Superconformal Quantum Mechanics
1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Time
Mar 14 Horatiu Nastase
Brown University
Black hole production, the Froissart bound, the soft Pomeron and the RHIC fireball from AdS-CFT
Monday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Date and Time
Mar 16 Eva Silverstein
SLAC
Spacetime Singularities, Topology, and Strings
Physics Colloqueum
Mar 22 No Seminar
Spring Break
Mar 28 Andrew Neitzke
Harvard
Elements of topological M-theory
Monday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Date and Time
Apr 12 Stefano Giusto
Ohio State
Kontsevich models and the moduli space geometry of FZZT Liouville branes
Tuesday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Time
Apr 19 Vasily Pestun
Princeton
The Hitchin functionals and the topological B-model at one loop
Tuesday 1:00pm at Chamberlin 5280: Note Special Time
Apr 21 Mikhail Shifman
University of Minnesota
QCD Strings as Inspiration and as a Challenge to String Theory
Thursday 2:30pm at Chamberlin 4274: Note Special Date and Room
Apr 22 Mikhail Shifman
University of Minnesota
Supersymmetry & How It Helps Us Understand Our World
Special Physics Colloquium. Friday 4:00 pm at 1300 Sterling Hall
May 3 No Seminar
DIS and Phenomenology Conferences
May 10 Chirs Beasley
Princeton
New Instanton Effects in String Theory

Schedule of seminars from fall 2004
Schedule of seminars from spring 2004
Schedule of seminars from fall 2003
Schedule of seminars from spring 2002